My browser / operating system: ChromeOS 10895.78.0, Chrome 69.0.3497.120, No Flash version detected


In a project page that I'm working on, Shockwave Flash isn't working. 5 seconds after getting on, it will say “Shockwave Flash isn't responding. Stop Plugin?” We've been trying to figure it out, but I think we need help? So…. help?

Sounds like your project is getting stuck in a loop without allowing Scratch to tell Flash to refresh the screen (e.g. within a custom block set to ‘run without screen refresh’).

Scratch is meant to force a refresh every half second or so even within a non-refresh script. Unfortunately, the current version (v461) has a bug with its internal timer that means it doesn't correctly keep track of the time, and so never gets around to forcing this refresh.

This causes Flash to crash…


If you can't find where this might be happening in the project, I'd suggest you share it and let others take a look.